Mary Markham Sorrells Savoie

Published 5:00 am Thursday, May 29, 2003

Services for Mary Markham Sorrells Savoie of Brookhaven are 11a.m., Saturday, May 31, at Center Street Church of Christ withburial in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon – 5 p.m., at WilliamsMortuary.

Mrs. Savoie, 59, died May 26, 2003, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born in Lincoln County on Dec. 17, 1943, to CharlieWashington and Beatrice Markham Wilson.

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She was a paralegal. She was a member of Center Street Church ofChrist. She was a 1962 graduate of Alexander High School.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, JefferySavoie; her half-brothers, Eugene Washington, Booker T. Washington,George Washington, Charlie Washington Jr., and Frank Robinson; anda half-sister, Betty McKenzie.

Survivors are her son, Juhn Pierre Richardson of Brookhaven; herhalf-sisters, Laurasteen Washington and Marie Pendelton, both ofWesson; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relativesand friends.